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/** * Copyright (C) 2011 JTalks.org Team * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */ package org.jtalks.jcommune.plugin.api; import org.apache.commons.io.IOCase; import org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.SuffixFileFilter; import org.jtalks.jcommune.plugin.api.core.StatefullPlugin; import org.slf4j.Logger; import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory; import java.io.File; import java.io.FilenameFilter; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLClassLoader; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; /** * Custom ClassLoader implementation to load classes from a specified folder. * It's used as a discovery class loader for JCommune plugin code jars. * <p>Limitations of current implementation: * <p> - Only .jar files are supported * <p> - Subfolders and their content is ignored, so scan is non-recursive * * @author Evgeny Naumenko */ public class PluginClassLoader extends URLClassLoader { private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PluginClassLoader.class); /** * @param folder lookup folder. It's non-recursive, so subfolders and it's content will be ignored */ public PluginClassLoader(String folder) { super(resolvePluginLocations(folder), StatefullPlugin.class.getClassLoader()); LOGGER.debug("Plugin class loader created for folder {}", folder); } private static URL[] resolvePluginLocations(String folder) { File file = new File(folder); if (!file.isDirectory()) { throw new IllegalArgumentException(folder + " is not a valid plugin folder"); } FilenameFilter jarFilter = new SuffixFileFilter(".jar", IOCase.INSENSITIVE); File[] pluginJars = file.listFiles(jarFilter); return createUrls(pluginJars); } private static URL[] createUrls(File[] files) { List<URL> urls = new ArrayList<>(files.length); for (File jar : files) { try { urls.add(jar.toURI().toURL()); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { LOGGER.warn("Unable to load a plugin from JAR", e); } } return urls.toArray(new URL[urls.size()]); } }